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Honestly, it is not likely that the player needs the whole book. I have never played in a campaign where the player needed the entire setting book. If he is using background information or rules from a book, then he should be required to have a copy of those rules. I do not think that he needs...

The homunculus entry in the MM states that a homunculus knows what its maker knows. Does anyone know what that means? Does that mean that the homunculus has its master's skills or feats or abilities? If not, exactly what does the homunculus gain? I checked the Eberron book and the additional...

No. It is not a separate class. You would be cleric 7, not cleric 6/ dwarven cleric 1. All the substitutions allow you to do is permanently swap out an ability you would get at a certain level for a specific other choice at that same level. In most cases all other abilities you get at that class...

I must disagree. I picked one up yesterday and I wasn't that impressed. Races of Stone was MUCH better. I didn't find it to be as bad as the Planar Handbook but it wasn't awe-inspiring either. I don't have by book with me at work but I will recap as much as I can remember. Feats: Humans and...

The Rod of Seven Parts boxed set has a really nice map of a cloud giant flying castle. It is a full color poster map (if I remember correctly). The entire cloud giant family is also detailed in that part of the adventure, as well as the wedding guests. Tzarevitch

This has been pointed out already but, the hobgoblins should use range and cover. That tactic is cheap and effective. Assuming each has a crossbow, they should all pick the same target and pepper him at the longest effective range they can employ. If using crossbows, attack from the edge of the...

Did the PCs know they were facing a vampire? I don't understand why they are having such a hard time breaching the vampire's DR. Are you saying that a 5th level cleric of the Silver Flame does not have a silver weapon? Was he sleeping through the inquisition? What about the fighter? Any sane...

So in other words nothing actually clearly states that an invocation modifying the blast AND the blast are the same standard action. You kind of infer it from the modifying invocation. At least I know I wasn't just missing it. Geez, I wish the authors would learn to clearly state what they...

Do you know if it actually says that anywhere? Anyone? Tzarevitch

Could someone help me with this? If a warlock's Eldrich Blast is a spell-like ability and therefore takes a standard action to activate, and the invocations also take a standard action to activate (they are spell-like and the warlock entry states they take a standard action), precisely how is...

This came up in my game when PCs sought to teleport to an airship (zeppelin) from another airship. Here is the solution I used. A ship is an object not a place. Technically a building is also an object not a place. Both of these objects occupy a certain space at a certain time (its location)...

Ace's post is correct. Heavy plate mail was perfectly capable of stopping arrows, bolts AND bullets of the era. In fact they were specifically built and tested to resist such things. If you look closely at some you will see a small dent where the maker fired a bullet into the armor to prove to...

You took the words right out of my mouth. The Green Star Adept no longer gains any benefit from the plethora of clerical healing magic, making you dependent on your own special healing, which comes at cost of your already meager spellcasting. Frankly, this class seems best suited for a...

Don't you think you should wait to see what the feats actually do before you start the skepticism? They may not be as bad as you think. Tzarevitch

Yes, but it has been every 289 years like clockwork since the dawn of time. Everyone knows this. Why would people build a town in the way when you know this happens? Yes you have a reason to be surprised that they came early, but you know that they WILL come. Why would you then have built...

. . . Spoiler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Orcus had risen from the dead after he was slain by the drow deity Kiaransalee (sp?). He had risen as an undead quasi-demon called Tenebrous. In that guise, he went to Pelion (Mithardir in 3.5e) the lowest layer of Arborea and learned to use the...

I agree. Execution was lacking, the component adventures don't flow well together, and it is hard to convince the PCs that they should follow the march. "Figure out what is going on," is simply not a good enough reason to follow the March through its sillyness. Additionally, a lot of the...

It lasts an hour per level and you can buy or make wands of it reasonably cheaply at high level. A sorcerer can trivially put it on nearly everyone in the party when they wake up in the morning. A rogue with a high-level wand can also do it. In 3.0 it was trivially easy to bypass DR is you...

Don't forget the mezzoloth. Tzarevitch

I'll warn you now, this is long. This is from my d20 Rokugan campaign and the PCs were Emerald Magistrates (sort of like federal marshals of the old west) in the service of the Emperor of Rokugan. The PCs were called to the far fringes of the Empire to help a daimyo with mysterious occurances...